Jennifer Saunders
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1958-07-06 (67 years old)
Place of Birth
Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Jennifer Saunders
Biography
Jennifer Jane Saunders is an English comedienne, screenwriter, singer and actress. She has won two BAFTAs, an International Emmy Award, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a Peoples Choice Award.
She first came into widespread attention in the 1980s and early 1990s when she became a member of The Comic Strip after graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama. Along with her comedy partner Dawn French, she writes and stars in their eponymous sketch show, French & Saunders, and has received international acclaim for writing and playing the lead role of Edina Monsoon in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.
In her other work, she has guest starred in the American sitcoms Roseanne and Friends, and won the American People's Choice Award for voicing the wicked Fairy Godmother in DreamWorks' animated Shrek 2. More recently, she wrote and starred in Jam & Jerusalem and The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle.
Acting
(2026)
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
as Mrs Hilbery
(2025)
(2024)
200% Wolf
as Max (voice)
(2024)
We Work for the Dead
as The Mother (voice)
(2024)
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
as The Goose (voice)
(2024)
(2024)
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
(2023)
Allelujah
as Sister Gilpin
(2023)
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
as Self - featured artist
(2023)
Sumotherhood
as DI Brookes
(2023)
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
as Self (uncredited)
(2022)
Death on the Nile
as Marie Van Schuyler
(2021)
Sing 2
as Nana (voice)
(2021)
(2019)
Isn't It Romantic
as Natalie's Mother
(2019)
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
as Meryl Streep / Cher
(2019)
Completely Bad News
as Sally
(2018)
Patrick
as Maureen
(2018)
Grandpa's Great Escape
as Miss Dandy
(2018)
Lady Windermere's Fan
as The Duchess of Berwick
(2018)
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
as Dr. Alex Cular
(2017)
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
as Self
(2017)
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
as Self - Presenter
(2017)
(2016)
Sing
as Nana (voice)
(2016)
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
as Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2016)
(2016)
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
as Edina Monsoon
(2015)
Minions
as Reine Elizabeth II (voice)
(2015)
Stick Man
as Narrator (voice)
(2014)
The Boy in the Dress
as Miss Windsor
(2012)
Five Go to Rehab
as Anne
(2012)
(2012)
(2011)
The Hunt for Tony Blair
as Lady Thatcher
(2011)
(2011)
(2009)
Coraline
as Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)
(2009)
(2008)
(2006)
L'Entente cordiale
as Gwendoline McFarlane
(2004)
Shrek 2
as Fairy Godmother (voice)
(2004)
(2002)
The Best of French & Saunders
as Various
(2001)
Absolutely Fabulous
as Une spectatrice du défilé
(2001)
(2000)
Mirrorball
as Vivienne Keill
(2000)
French & Saunders - Live
as Various roles
(1999)
Fanny & Elvis
as Roanna
(1998)
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
as Edina "Eddy" Monsoon
(1998)
Four Men in a Car
as Helen
(1997)
Spice World
as Fashionable Woman
(1996)
Muppet Treasure Island
as Mrs. Bluveridge
(1996)
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
as Edina Monsoon
(1995)
In the Bleak Midwinter
as Nancy
(1995)
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
as Self / Edina "Eddy" Monsoon (archive footage)
(1994)
Dusty
as Self - Presenter
(1993)
Jealousy
as Jane/Margory
(1993)
Prince Cinders
as Fairy (voice)
(1993)
Demonella
as The Devil
(1993)
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
as Needle
(1993)
(1992)
Wild Turkey
as Neighbour
(1992)
Red Nose of Courage
as Margaret Thatcher
(1991)
(1990)
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
as Cathy
(1990)
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
as Dorcas
(1990)
GLC: The Carnage Continues
as Brigitte Nielsen as Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Maiden
(1990)
Oxford
as Hannah
(1990)
Spaghetti Hoops
as Maria
(1990)
(1990)
(1989)
(1989)
(1989)
(1988)
The Strike
as Meryl Streep as Mrs Scargill
(1988)
More Bad News
as Sally
(1988)
(1988)
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
as Monica
(1987)
Eat the Rich
as Lady Caroline
(1987)
The Silurian Disruption
as Silurian #2
(1986)
(1986)
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
as Jessica
(1986)
Comedians Do It On Stage
as Self
(1986)
Private Enterprise
as Debbie
(1985)
The Supergrass
as Lesley Reynolds
(1984)
Slags
as Little Sister
(1984)
Susie
as Lorna
(1984)
Gino: Full Story and Pics
as Angie
(1984)
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
as Shona
(1984)
Dirty Movie
as June
(1984)
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
as Doreen
(1983)
Bad News
as Sally
(1983)
The Beat Generation
as Anne
(1983)
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
as Anne
(1983)
Summer School
as Liz
(1983)
War
as Various Roles
(1982)
Five Go Mad in Dorset
as Anne
(1981)
Crew
(2024)
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
Executive Producer
(2019)
(2016)
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Screenplay
(2008)
(2002)
(2001)
Absolutely Fabulous
Writer
(2000)
Mirrorball
Writer, Creator
(2000)
French & Saunders - Live
Writer
(1998)
(1996)
(1995)
(1987)
The Silurian Disruption
Writer
(1986)
(1984)
Slags
Writer
(1981)
The Comic Strip
Writer